Oct 06 2008
Hiking Runyon Canyon
After night of drinking on Friday, I woke up late on sat and i headed out for groceries. The weather was simply amazing, overcast skies, cool breeze with no rain. After the hot week that we had it was really nice to have this sort of change in weather and i felt like going for a hike.
It was about 1.30 pm by the time i decided that i should take advantage of this weather and go out for a hike. I needed to find a hike which was short and also close by. It had to be either Runyon Canyon or Griffith Park but since i didn’t want to drive i decided on the former.
There is only one hike out there i believe and its a loop which runs across the park. So at about 2.45 pm i got out of my apt and started walking towards the park. I also took my new olympus 1030SW to take some pictures. It felt nice to just walk in this cool weather, after 15 mins or so cutting across the hoard of tourists on hollywood blvd i reached the park entrance.
Its a really easy hike and there is a nice paved road going all the way up, there was another steep trail which went on the ridge in opposite direction but i decided not to venture on that route since it was my first time. So i just continued on this gradual uphill slope, initially the weather was changing there was no breeze and the sun was started to come out but as i was reaching the top it was coming back.
I hiked at a fairly brisk pace and took some pictures as well in the meantime. I reached that bench on the top at about 3.45 or so and it felt really nice to see beautiful views, i could see all the way to santa monica, west wood to my left and the griffith park, hollywood sign to my far right. It was really beautiful and just standing there feeling the breeze with my eyes closed, i felt calm and relaxed.
I decided to take an offbeat path to come down and it didn’t take me that long to reach the park entrance. On my way back i decided to skip the crazy walk past the tourist crowds on Hollywood Blvd and finally i reached my place at around 5ish. It was my first hike (certainly not the last) in Runyon Canyon and i look forward to more hikes in that place.
The Views of the City
The Hollywood Sign
The Panorama Shot. Click Image for bigger pic
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